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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head>That might be close enough to the HP campaign <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Ken Adler &lt;ken.adler@gmail.com&gt; wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I second what Praveen said..... I am committing assuming that the mock up is not necessarily the final &quot;release candidate&quot;. Though I like the brevity of one word, it sort of hit me as an <a href="http://horseviewer.com/">HP adver</a>t.<div>

Mitch -- I&#39;ll kick down some cash... but not to bike shed or anything... But I&#39;m bike shedding :) Is there something we could add to the sign that would make clear to people that it&#39;s NOT an ad for corporate stuff like make magazine, but rather a general PSA ? I guess noisebridge is the only truly open organization on the ad...<br>

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">The person behind making this happen is Matt Spergel, who has some good experience in hacking the billboard system to get great coverage for cool projects.<span> </span>Matt managed to get a huge billboard up on I-680 to promote libraries and education for a few thousand dollars (rather than tens of thousands).<span> </span>The result:</font></p>

<font size="3" face="Calibri">Matt’s idea now is to have 3 huge billboards to promote maker/hacker culture, with the logos for Noisebridge, Hacker Dojo, The Tech Museum, MAKE, and TechShop:</font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p>

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">The one on the skyway usually retails for $30K a month, but Matt’s contact/friend at CBS Outdoor can swing all of these for about $7,500.<span> </span>A mockup is at:</font></p>

<p><font size="3" face="Calibri"><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:InventBillboardMockup.png" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/File:InventBillboardMockup.png</a><br><br></font><font size="3" face="Calibri">We are $1,000 short of this goal, and I agreed to try and raise this on Noisebridge’s behalf.<span> </span>The other groups have already come up with the following amounts of money for this project:</font></p>

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">If a bunch of people each kick in a few dollars, we can easily come up with the $1k to make this happen.<span> </span>I’m starting this off by pledging $250.<span> </span>Anyone else in?<span> </span></font></font></p>

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri"> </font></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p><font size="3" face="Calibri">You can add your pledge to the wiki I created for this:</font></p>

2) To create more visibility for our organizations.<br>3) To get more people involved who will add to maker/hacker culture<br>4) To promote more collaboration amongst the orgs in on this billboard<br><br></font></font></p>